Favorite Defunct .com Website

[jfields 0]

Hey folks.

What is your favorite defunct .com website? Either they got bought out and scrapped, or they went bust, or they got sued out of existence, or whatever.

Mine was suck.com, which was a humor site. The site itself is still up, but there hasn't been any new content since 6/8/2001. They ran out of money, but I guess their bandwidth/server contract was pre-paid. Either that or a former employee migrated the archive as a labor of love.

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Or www.sordid.com when it was just an ametuer web site

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Pets.com

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[Jessica 0]

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Mine was suck.com, which was a humor site.

You know, I never checked that out and always meant to, because Peter Bagge, one of my favorite writers and cartoonists was a regular contributer. Do you remember his stuff?

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[jfields 0]

Jessica,

I don't remember his stuff specifically, but they are still online. I just loved the sarcastic, cynical take on events. They also had people go on some of the funniest rants. And the cartoons were hilarious. I miss it.

[pilotdave 0]

Used to love adcritic.com. It was gone for a while. Just checked and it's back up, for $70/year. Yeah, great. Thats what I call defunct.

Another great one, on a smaller scale, was a website at the university of maryland called terpidiots.com. Started off as a bunch of pictures of drunk people doing stupid stuff, but it got really popular and kept growing. It became like an unofficial online gathering place for maryland students. The message boards became really popular, and the site was getting like 2000 hits per day, and up to like 15000 on days after big events like basketball games, riots, and when a tornado came through campus. There would be pictures of recent events up within minutes.

The university didnt like the site too much, and threatened the creators with a lawsuit. Everyone was hoping they'd get a lawyer and take it to court, but they chose not to and shut down. The site was hosted off campus, so the lawsuit was simply over the use of the word "terp" in the domain name. The word is copywrited by the school, but copyrights are very specific and chances are had they gone to court, the website would have easily won.

A couple sites came along to replace it, but it hasn't been the same since. The latest one is http://www.terrapinsgonewild.com.

Dave